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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposed that the course of 1896 shall be followed in 1897 by a similar course, in which the chief attention shall be given to the arts of Italy from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries inclusive...
Thursday evening, April 16, the Harvard Forum will hold a debate and smoker at the rooms of one of the members. This meeting will be the first of its kind in the history of the Harvard debating societies, but hereafter the Forum intends holding similar meetings at intervals thronghout the college year. At least two of them will be held shortly before the Yale and Princeton competitions. It is expected that the new features of smoking, eating of light refreshments and the comforts of easy chairs and window seats will bring out all the members. The chief aims...
...success of the junior dinner has brought up the question of the advisability of the underclassmen taking up such an affair. In a reply to a communication urging the extension of this custom, you favored holding a sophomore dinner, but made objection to a similar meeting of the freshman class on the ground that the class was seldom sufficiently united to make the event a success. With its special organizations, in addition to its athletic teams, is not the freshman class, toward the close of the year, really more united than the sophomore class? In any case, would...
...Like many of the greatest masterpieces of the dramatic art, Racine's tragedy is founded upon the heroic fable. Racine had for prototypes the plays of Euripides, in Greek, and of Seneca, in Latin. He differs widely from Euripides, who has a different hero, but he is very similar to Seneca, both in treatment of plot and character. Profiting by the experience of his two classical models, Racine has given us the finest profane tragedy of the French drama...
...Fellowships here announced are open to Bachelors of Arts of Universities and Colleges in the United States, and to other American students of similar attainments. Applicants must submit (on a blank form provided for the purpose) a full and explicit statement of their work as students up to this time, together with testimonials from their teachers and copies of any papers, written or printed, which they have prepared in the course of their studies...